US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on April 7 for "Systems and methods for detecting and addressing applications utilizing adaptive bitrates when providing video traffic" (Michigan, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,340, issued on April 7, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and addressing applications utilizing adaptive bitrates when providing video traffic" was invented by Krzysztof Pawlikowski (Farmington, Conn.) and Khurram Abbas (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may receive, from a server, video traffic associated with an application, wherein the application is associated with a video content provider. The network device may detect whether the application utilizes an adaptive bitrate to provide the video traffic, based...